Photos Aussies and Kiwi's in Vietnam

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Members of B Company, 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), collect gear and check weapons as they leave armoured personnel carriers which took them into jungle south of their base during Operation Tambourine.
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Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. May 1971. Taking down a message, by way of field radio, in the thick jungle of Phuoc Tuy Province is Private (Pte) Peter O'Halloran of Subiaco, WA. Pte O'Halloran is a signaller with C Company, 2RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment). The battalion has just completed its final operation in South Vietnam. It will return to Australia later this month.
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Vietnam War. Ngai Giao, Phuoc Tuy Province. c 1969. Hard Yakka. Troopers from B Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment, Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC), hard at work changing the track on their Centurion Mk V/1 tank. Identified L-R: Fossie, Bob Mundy, Stretch, 22 and Bill. Photo by Trooper Robert Gardiner. [AWM P01381.003]

 

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Vietnam War. Phuoc Tuy Province. 25 December 1971. Sergeant Alan Fuhlbohm and Vietnamese kitchen assistant, Miss No, add the finishing touches to Christmas cakes and puddings provided by families and friends of soldiers back home in Australia. Photo by John Alfred Ford. [AWM FOD/71/0613/VN]

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province. 1966. Covered by an RAAF UH-1 Iroquois door gunner's M60 machine gun, Australian soldiers taking part in a raid on a Viet Cong installation rise out of a rice paddy to be taken back to their HQ after successfully completing an operation.

 

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Three members of 1 Squadron, Special Air Service Regiment waiting at Kanga Pad, Nui Dat, for insertion by helicopters of 9 Squadron to commence an operational patrol in Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam, 1968. They are armed with L1A1's and M16's, one mounting an XM148 grenade launcher.

21 August 1968. An M60 gunner of 4RAR/NZ (ANZAC) on an operation around FSB Betty.

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province. October 1967. Private Ross O'Brien holds a young Vietnamese child during the official opening and flag raising ceremony of the Vietnamese village of Ap Suoi Nghe, three miles north of the 1st Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat.

 

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Vietnam War. Phuoc Tuy Province. c August 1966 - June 1967. Leave nothing for the enemy. Private Adrian Roderick and Corporal Ross Smith of 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), destroy their excess rations. Photo by Private David Buckwalter. [AWM P05528.211]

 

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Bien Hoa Province. c 3 December 1968 - 19 February 1969. A Centurion Mk V/I tank of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) on Operation Goodwood.

 

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Pte Dennis Griffin (left) and Pte Norman Booker (top) in Vietnam, 1967-1968. Norman Booker was M60 No. 2 with 4 Platoon, Victor 2 Company, 2RAR and 2RAR/NZ (Anzac) Battalion.
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Members of Clearance Diving Team 3, seen here with their unofficial mascot 'ABCD dog'.
Without doubt one of the smallest, and unrivalled, Australian units to serve in Vietnam was Australian Clearance Diving Team Three (CDT3). They were an elite group of 49 officers and men; divers trained in the dangerous business of explosive ordnance disposal, who established an enviable reputation for courage and innovation in time of war in the spirit of the diver's motto, 'United and Undaunted'.
The RAN formally established a Clearance Diving branch in 1951, and a Mobile Clearance Diving Team in 1956. In March 1966 two distinct teams were commissioned in Sydney; CDT1 and CDT2. Shortly thereafter CDT1 deployed for exercises in South East Asia, including one week in Vietnam conducting operations with their American counterparts. The Commanding Officer of CDT1 was of the view that a RAN diving team would make a worthwhile contribution to the Australian effort in Vietnam and recommended that CDT1 be deployed for a three to six month period. The RAN approved the formation of CDT3 in late 1966 as one element of a larger naval contribution to the war in Vietnam.

 

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Patrol commander, 2nd Lieutenant Clive Williams of Holsworthy, NSW (right) briefs section leaders, Corporal John Pearce of Warwick Farm, Sydney, NSW (left), and Cpl Chris Webster of Holsworthy, NSW, during a 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) patrol around the perimeter of the Bien Hoa airbase. March, 1966.
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Bien Hoa, South Vietnam. 1968-02. Members of No. 1 Squadron, Special Air Service (1SAS) after briefing, prepare for patrol out of the battalion headquarters of 7th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (7 RAR). Patrol sergeant Laurie Frazer is second from the right.

Patrol sergeant Laurie Frazer of No. 1 Squadron, Special Air Service (1 SAS) on patrol out of the battalion headquarters of 7th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (7 RAR) during Operation Coburg. He is dressed in a tiger stripe pattern camouflage uniform and carries a standard M16 rifle and a bergan rucksack. (AWM)

n unknown member of the Special Air Services (SAS) in full kit ready to go out on patrol from Fire Support Base (FSB) Kiama). The soldier is wearing jungle camouflage, floppy bush hat and facial camouflage cream. A grenade is attached to the front of each of his shoulder straps (www.awm.gov.au/collection/C270559)

A soldier and four members of No. 1 Squadron, Special Air Service (1SAS), preparing for patrol out of the Battalion Headquarters of 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), during Operation Coburg. They are dressed in tiger stripe pattern camouflage uniforms and carry M16 and SLR rifles. Note the 30 round magazine and the disruptive tape on the foregrip of the SLR rifle. (www.awm.gov.au/collection/C283747)

 

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Australian infantry being transported on a M113A1 APC driven by 216502 Trooper Douglas Thomas (Doug) Lennox (lower right, in helmet) of A Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment. Also identified is the Crew Commander, 16666 Corporal William Gordon (Bill) Gelhaar (centre, in helmet), also of A Squadron.

 

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Portrait of 1735077 Lance Corporal Stephen Sanderson, 85th Transport Platoon, Royal Australian Army Service Corps, (RAASC), at Fire Support Base Le Loi. He is holding an M79, 40 mm grenade launcher. Australian troops often referred to this weapon as a wombat gun.

 

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At the Kangaroo Pad at the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base, soldiers of 7RAR (Royal Australian Regiment) wait to board helicopters to commence Operation Finschhafen, the battalion's first operation of its second tour of duty in Vietnam. The men are fully armed and some have their faces smeared with camouflage paint. The soldier in the foreground is Private 55645 John Joseph Smith of 5 Platoon, B Company 7RAR from Cottesloe Western Australia. He is armed with an M72 66mm Light Anti-tank Weapon (LAW). This weapon was not used after this initial operation because soldiers found it too difficult to move through dense vegetation with it slung across their back.

 

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214560 Sergeant Francis Alan (Frank) Graham, 1st Armoured Personnel Carrier Squadron, checks a map on board a M113A1 APC. In the background, Australian Infantry are moving out of the jungle "to board their taxis".

 

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Tired out from hours of fighting and sleeplessness, Corporal Geoff "Doc" Jones, C Company medic, of Bankstown, Sydney, NSW, waits for the order to pull out and move back to his base. Geoff was among troops of the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), who routed a large Viet Cong force during a bitter battle at Long Tan, in Phuoc Tuy Province in Operation Smithfield. The soldier in the background with a cigarette in his mouth is Private Peter Fischer.

 

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Nui Dat, South Vietnam. 1969-06. Lance Corporal Bob Allen of Parkes, NSW, pauses after thirstily gulping his first cool drink in days. He had just returned to the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) Base in Phuoc Tuy Province after a patrol with the 3rd Squadron, Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment. Note his camouflaged face.